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Alan Turing - Remarkable Lives (Paperback)
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Alan Turing - Remarkable Lives (Paperback)
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Today, Alan Turing is a well-recognised name, but it was not always
so. Until the last few years of the 20th century hardly anyone had
heard of him or his achievements.All that changed when the British
government permitted the story of Bletchley Park during the Second
World War to emerge.We learnt that Alan Turing had had a pivotal
role in breaking the Enigma cipher, used by German forces.This was
so significant that it helped to shorten the length of the war.Alan
Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42
years other careers besides secret codebreaker: he was also a
mathematician, computer scientist and biologist. For example, with
Tommy Flowers he built the first computer. A man ahead of his time,
many of his theories and calculations are still relevant today.In
this guide to a truly remarkable life, recent research by Alan
Turing's nephew, Dermot, has unearthed a fresh perspective and made
entirely accessible this story to the modern reader.
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